Should College
Tuition Be Free? The real question should be, is “free public college” actually
free? When Americans’ suggest colleges to be tuition free, they don’t have an
idea who would pay for the free tuition. When you think about it, free college
isn’t really free, the cost just changes from students to taxpayers. Federal
funding college education would increase taxes, since the money has to come
from somewhere. Americans love
the idea, but once they would see their taxes go up that would be a major
issue. “If the U.S. government diverts more fundingtoward making community colleges tuition-free, then students attending privateschools could potentially lose access to federal financial aid since that mightbe one of the tradeoffs. They would then need to decide whether to attend freepublic schools that may be a lot more crowded or provide less effective.” Do
you think this would be fair for the students in private college? Today, total tuition at public colleges and universities amounts to about $70 billion per year. Under the College for All Act, the federal government would cover 67% of this cost, while the states would be responsible for the remaining 33% of the cost.
In my opinion,
free college tuition would be ideal for every American. Although, the cost for
that free tuition would actually harm the American people who are middle class
or below middle class with high taxes to cover the tuition. If only the
government could come up with a compromise of lowering certain college tuition
fees, perhaps it would be less stressful for the people to complete their
education without going into debt with the student loans. I believe this topic
is very interesting/challenging and you have to layout all the benefits etc, to
fully understand the meaning of free college tuition. Do you believe we should
have free college tuition? Or why not?
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